Civil War Dialogues

Helpful Links

John Brown: Should John Brown be punished for his actions at Harper’s Ferry? (John Brown, Abolitionist, Harper's Ferry, Bleeding Kansas)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
http://www.civilwarhome.com/johnbrownbio.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/peopleevents/pande01.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2940.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215469/raid_at_harper%27s_ferry.htm

Bleeding Kansas: Should the new western states be slave states or free states? (Bleeding Kansas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Compromise of 1850, John Brown, Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/beforethewar/g/bleedingkansas.htm
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=28
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Compromise1850.html
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=27

Women in the Civil War: What role should women have in this conflict? (women in Civil War, nurses in Civil War, women spies in the Civil War)

http://americancivilwar.com/women/women.html
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html
http://www.history.com/topics/women-in-the-civil-war
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Women-Who-Fought-in-the-Civil-War.html
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2719

Slavery: Should you run away? (escape slave, punishments, Fugitive Slave Act)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/slavery.htm
http://www.blackloyalist.com/canadiandigitalcollection/story/revolution/escape.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASrunaways.htm
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/

Emancipation: Should the slaves in the southern states be freed? (Emancipation Proclamation, emancipation debate)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html
http://lincoln.history.illinois.edu/resources/emancipation.htm
http://www.articlemyriad.com/emancipation-proclamation-savior-rhetoric/
http://www.surfnetkids.com/go/69/top-ten-facts-about-the-emancipation-proclamation/
http://www.history.com/topics/emancipation-proclamation
http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/slavery.htm

Leadership: How can we show our dissatisfaction with President Lincoln? (John Wilkes Booth)

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lincoln2.htm
http://abesblogcabin.org/general-george-mcclellan-lincoln-is-nothing-more-than-a-well-meaning-baboon
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/lincolnconspiracy/booth.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/73713/John-Wilkes-Booth

Military Strategy: In order to win, should the North use General McClellan’s strategy or General Sherman’s strategy? (Union strategy, William Sherman, Ulysses S Grant, George McClellan, total war)

http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/map2.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USACWmcclellan.htm
http://www.historynet.com/mcclellans-war-winning-strategy.htm
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/biographies/grant.html
http://www.nps.gov/history/logcabin/html/usg2.html
http://www.history.com/topics/william-t-sherman

States Rights: Should southerners secede from the Union? (states rights, southern secession, Confederacy, Confederate secession)

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/statesrights.html

http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/statesrights.html
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/04/myth-secession-states-rights-civil-wa/
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/Article_StatesRights.htm

Dred Scott: Are black people citizens of the United States? (Dred Scott, Dred Scott v. Stanford)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/dred.htm
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1856/1856_0/
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/ (check out all the links here!)

Fugitive Slave Act: Should you obey the Fugitive Slave Act? (Fugitive Slave Act, abolitionists, underground railroad)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=009/llsl009.db&recNum=489
http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1850fugitive.asp
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h137.html
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/history/1850.htm

Deadlines and Reminders

				May 4 History: Project introduction and choose groups
May 7 History: Research day 1 LA: Sensory writing and creative writing	May 8 History: Research day 2; choose format by end of period LA: Sensory writing and creative writing	May 9 History: Outline skit; Work with group on writing skit LA: continue to add independently to skit	May 10 History: Work with group on writing skit LA: Peer reviews	May 11 History: Civil War video LA: Conferences about areas for improvement
May 14 History: prep day with group	May 15 History: prep day with group	May 16 Performances in History class LA classes will join as audience Notes and bibliography due	May 17 History: guest performance about Civil War	May 18 Half day Service day